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Ian Mackaye was 18-9 when he wrote this song about not fitting in with his white stoner peers in the DC high schools, of course it is kind of what invented straight-edge which i am not and have never been or wanted to be, and that 's not why i'm posting it- it's about being who you are, and...

Yes, this says a lot i was trying so say, but much more briefly. Except i would just add (repeating the exact same shit i said before, as old people tend to do), so many are doing this "crustpunk 'i am a filthydirty trainkid!' Outside of society is where i wanna be!" [a 1970s Patti Smith...

If your version of being "punk as fuck" involves conformity to punk/dirtykid/what-the-fuck-ever dress-code, or obedience in sticking to this list of approved punk activities, or doing what other punx do to fit in, you have kinda missed the point. Let an old motherfucker remind you punk is...

The OP trusted themself enough to go against everything they had been told about how to live, and go on the road. Sounds like they are having a hard time trusting themself again, to make another, different change, maybe because the social reinforcement and love they have found in road culture...

As an old guy, i will chime in. My hardcore traveling days were a long time ago, in the '70s (see my "Tales of shoplifting, hitchhiking..." thread), but i was a teenage dirtbag who lived in a tent all up and down the northeast, and by scamming and hustling (and sometimes cooking in...